-------------------------------------------------------Rhea
The rhea belongs to the order of Struthioniforms which also includes the ostrich (Africa), the emeu (Australia), the kiwi (New Zealand), the casoar (Australia and New Guinea) and the moa, now disappeared. The head and the neck of the nandou are completely covered by its plumage whose color varies from pale gray to the brown. The nandou does not have a tail, but long feathers start from its posterior part. Although it is a bird, the nandou cannot fly because it has only small wings which are not adapted to the flight. However it has long legs to move quickly. The nandou reached 1.5m height and weighs approximately 25kg. It live about 18 years. The nandou feeds mainly from plants, roots, crickets and certain reptiles of
small size. Like the ostriches, the nandous are polygamous, they are coupled with several females (not more than ten!). In fact the males brood approximately 20 to 30 eggs which hatch at the end of forty days. There exist 4 varieties of nandu:

Hello Jean,
A good image with the lack of anything to take but desert, bush and this Rhea. One thing that may have made this a better image would have been to place the Rhea on the far right third of the frame to show it entering the scene nd not departing. Other than that, a good image...